Code update

[mark]

Code was just updated. In particular, this update brings the alpha version (first release) of the crossposter tool. This release also brings a change to the way we do adult content to bring it more in line with our goals for the site. More information on the adult content change.

Please keep in mind that this is Closed Beta. As such, we're iterating quickly, and releasing early. There will be bugs, that's a promise.

Please let us know what issues you find so we can fix them up!

Comments

[dreamingpixels]

I've crossposted twice- I haven't gotten any link at the end of my entry saying "original entry posted at blah blah, go there to comment". Other than that, and the lack of notification, it's working well.

[mark]

Yeah, the site copy team has to go through and work at the text some now that the feature has gone live.

[dreamingpixels]

No wait, I found it. Nevermind. XD

[trobadora]

Yes, that.

Crossposter messes my Reading page

[wistfuljane]

Reading through all these comments, I seem to be the only one who is experiencing this, but I think the crossposter messes my Reading page.

Two Three users of my circle listed crossposted using the crossposter and I think as a result, they are the only ones appearing on the first page of my reading page, if that makes sense. If I go ?skip=x or view the reading page in using the journal/communities only filter, it seems to kind of fix the problem.

[allen]

That seems like it should be doable, and a good idea. I won't make any promises yet, though.

Re: Crossposter messes my Reading page

[mark]

It sounds like you're referring to what bug 86 in Bugzilla talks about. It's a known issue with a fix we made to the reading page logic that had an unintended consequence of breaking it in some very rare case.

We'll have this patched by Open Beta. Your reading page should return to normal as more people post. Sorry for the trouble!

[montanaharper]

Cool, thanks for the update.

[futuransky]

I tested the crosspost to an access filter on my DW and it posted flocked but not filtered to my LJ (where the filters set up are the same, I imported them). Just wanted to check whether that's always how it will work (not the end of the world by any means!) or whether the crossposter will eventually be able to recognize LJ filters? Would be magic if it did but I have no idea how complicated that is. :)

[allen]

Editing a post that I imported from lj, however, resulted in a new lj post

Oh, yeah, the crossposter only works forward, mapping messages on DW to another site. It's not integrated with the importer. (Though, mark, that might be worth considering....)

[allen]

When the bug for this was filed, linking to the OpenID page was specified in the message text. But when I was writing it, I didn't have the link available, so I left it out, planning on adding it in later. Which, erm, didn't happen. D'oh!

Re: Crossposter messes my Reading page

[wistfuljane]

Ah, okay -- good to know that the issue's already logged! Thanks for letting me know about it.

[miss_s_b]

LOL fair enough!

* hug *

Hard work so far is much appreciated. Seriously. If I could give you all a real life hug I totally would.

[allen]

It doesn't always work for old entries: you tick the boxes, get the message but if you edit the entry again, the boxes are not ticked.

When you say 'get the message', do you mean the initial 'message sent to crossposter' message, or the success message in the Inbox? There's not yet a setting to indicate 'crosspost pending' (though there probably should be), so if you checked before the crosspost finished, it wouldn't show up yet.

If you checked after the crosspost finished, then it's probably just a bug. :)

[ninetydegrees]

I meant the initial 'message sent to crossposter' message on the editjournal.bml confirmation page. I've never gotten any success messages in my Inbox.

[rydra_wong]

Not a problem, I just thought it was something you should be aware of, especially as more people get accounts who don't necessarily know you or Dreamwidth's principles well, and who don't yet have a basis for trusting you. It helps if needless panic can be pre-empted *g*.

[1_mad_squirrel]

I am having trouble setting more than one journal site for cross-posting. I set my LiveJournal, and then I got a page that shows me what I've set, but I can't see any button or other method to add more. I am using Firefox v3.0.8., with Windows XP Service pack 3.

[allen]

Right now we don't store information about custom friends filters on other sites. We should be able to get it, though, which would mean that we probably could set up a default filter to use. Would be a little bit of extra DB storage, but that's it.

But, yeah, it's probably on the Nice to Have list rather than the Required list.

[xwingace]

That works (or rather, your link does), but that's hardly the most ideal way to set things up.

Thanks for the information anyway. My account is set up at least.

XWA

[pantswarrior]

My little attempt at a test didn't work so well - I set my default minimum privacy level on LJ to friends-only, and left my DW privacy level at public, then used the cross-poster (same browser, same window as I changed the privacy settings on). The DW entry was public - but so was the LJ copy.

I went back to my privacy settings on LJ just to make sure it had logged the change correctly, and it was still set to friends-only minimum. Made a quick test post to LJ with Semagic (and with privacy level in Semagic left at the default "public"), and this second post was posted friends-only.

So my conclusion is that LJ's minimum privacy settings were working, but DW's cross-posting didn't respect them for some reason. (Edit: After reading back up the page, it seems the privacy settings may have worked at first, then DW turned the LJ entry public when I edited a typo, since that's happened to at least one other person...)

But since I wasn't really too concerned about the privacy settings at the moment, I'm still going "Woooooooo crossposting!" over the fact that we have it at all, and it's pretty smooth. ;)

[allen]

Most likely. It was included in the original design, but there were some problems with encrypting the password on post, so it got pulled back. Once those are ironed out it'll probably go back in. And, you know, break other things. :)

[annotated_em]

Doesn't look like this has come up in any other comments:

I've set two accounts up for crossposting, IJ first and LJ second. I tried a sample crosspost to both sites. The LJ crosspost went off without a hitch. The IJ crosspost was not checked at all.

I tried a second crosspost to IJ only; nada. When I went back in, the crosspost option and the IJ account were both unchecked.

Seems like there may be a bug that only lets us crosspost to one alternate account--the most recently added one?

EDIT: This seems like what's going on; I went in, deleted the LJ account, and an IJ crosspost worked like a charm.

[syntheid]

Are all the other journal sites not quite functional? Because if they're supposed to be, they don't seem to be working. Insanejournal seems fine, as does Livejournal, but although I can create an account link to Inksome, it'll tell me the request to crosspost has been made and I'll be notified, and then doesn't actually post there (or give me a failed notification). When I go back to edit at the entry, the Inksome checkbox for crossposting is unchecked again.

I also tried making a link to a Scribbld account, but a) wasn't quite sure what URL it wanted of me (regular URL or the /interface/flat version) and b) it seemed to have some sort of error:

[Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 25, column 31, byte 909 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 at /home/dw/current/cgi-bin/DW/External/XPostProtocol/LJXMLRPC.pm line 160 @ dfw-web02]

Re: You probably already have this one, but:

[allen]

You need to turn off the 'surrealist media embedding' option. ;)

No, really, we didn't know about that, though that's what was threatening to happen with polls before we replaced them with links back to the original. So I can't say that I'm that surprised.

[nafs]

And, you know, break other things. :)

Well, *yeah*. Where's the fun of beta if it doesn't? ;)